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Plant Ecosystem Processes - BIOS3061 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description Examines interactions of plants with their soil and atmospheric environments; plant growth and decomposition processes; cycling of carbon, water and nutrients in plant ecosystems; the role of fungi in ecosystems; mineral nutrition and water uptake in plants; root systems; plant strategies for improving mineral nutrition; the role of symbiosis in mineral nutrition; impacts of global change on vegetation; the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon budget; relating vegetation to climate.
Note: A field excursion to the Snowy Mountains during Orientation-Week of Session 1 is compulsory and will involve expense to individual students. Assumed Knowledge: BIOS2051 |